Marly Youmans's Blog, page 4

Zefram; GFDL Cc-by-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0Paderborner Cathedral,  DreihasenfensterCreated: 29 July 2006TINNERS' RABBITSThanks to Conor Sweetman and the staff of Ekstasis, who recently accepted a couple of poems of mine; the first can be found HERE. If you want to know more about the rabbits--hares, really-- you can see a Cornish tin miner's  badge here, an Alsace puzzle plate here, a Mogao Caves temple

Poem at NAA: Woman, Tree, RainI'd forgotten this poem by the time it appeared. I've written stories with women in trees, and wrote a whole novel once that kept a woman high in a redwood. I've written poems that were self-portraits-as-dryad, and trees often invade my lines. So it wasn't surprising to reread and find that by the close I had found it worthwhile to communicate with a tree.Thoreau

Bouquet for 34 years, July 16MEZZO CAMMINSome poems that the late poet, editor, and professor Kim Bridgford accepted for Mezzo Cammin are up--now re-accepted by editor Anna Evans. Thanks to her and the journal!Here are titles and first lines to entice you to fly HERE...The Maiden-Saint of FranceWhile still a child I was a thing men fear,The fire-struck one who has the ears to hearThe Watering

MEZZO CAMMINSome poems that the late poet, editor, and professor Kim Bridgford accepted for Mezzo Cammin are up--now re-accepted by editor Anna Evans. Thanks to her and the journal!Here are titles and first lines to entice you to fly HERE...The Maiden-Saint of FranceWhile still a child I was a thing men fear,The fire-struck one who has the ears to hearThe Watering PlaceWe wished the stream to be

HOT HOT HOTI got up at 7:00 a.m., coolest hour of the day, to pull the fans and shut the windows and curtains... Here's an image of this week's hot-weather picnic. Spanish tapas followed by homemade ice cream hiding little morsels of fresh cherries and dark chocolate.If somebody has a secret weapon against Japanese knotweed (that green stuff in the background), let me know! Losing every battle

HOT HOT HOTI got up at 7:00 a.m., coolest hour of the day, to pull the fans and shut the windows and curtains... Here's an image of this week's hot-weather picnic. Spanish tapas followed by homemade ice cream hiding little morsels of fresh cherries and dark chocolate.If somebody has a secret weapon against Japanese knotweed (that green stuff in the background), let me know! Losing every battle

Aside from tweaking yesterday's poem, I have managed to lay waste to the morning without much accomplishment. Unlike yesterday, when I was a weeding demon in the garden, and also cut down the leaves of autumn crocuses (croci!) that will magically return as flowers in the fall... What a weird emblem of resurrection they are! The big broad leaves of spring turn brown and die, and the the autumn

Click HERE to find a Zoom invite for my CANO (Community Arts Network of Oneonta) reading on the 17th, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. EST (It kicks off with a short open mike session followed by yours truly reading from THE BOOK OF THE RED KING (Phoenicia Publishing, 2019) and CHARIS IN THE WORLD OF WONDERS (Ignatius Press, 2020.) Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins!

Just home from four days in New Hampshire, and pleased to find people sharing two new poems of mine on social media... enjoy!Self-portrait as Ruth the Moabite at Measure ReviewPilfered from Measure Review on Twitter: "Writing in a nonce form that's half-sestina and half-ghazal, #poet Marly Youmans (@marlyyoumans) has created a stunning and hopeful #poem worth remembering - and form worth trying

Home after five weeks on my mother's North Carolina mountaintop and a meet-in-Philly trip to celebrate my youngest child's birthday... noting my June events here. Evidently anyone can attend the CANO event, though a link is needed. And I think that'll be sent the week before.June 17CANO reading via ZoomI'll read fromThe Book of the Red King and Charis in the World of Wondershttp://